Windows 10: Win 11 Home Ver 24H2 Network Drive Connection Issues

New Win 11 Home Ver 24H2 PC built Jan 2025 by CPU Solutions in Madison WI. I was online with a Microsoft tech using the chat option and they were unable to get me connected to my Western Digital WD MyCloud network drive. The drive is connected via ethernet to my LinkSys router. I have never had a problem connecting automatically/seamlessly on my old Win 10 PC, nor on a Dell laptop I upgraded from Win 10 to Win 11 a few months ago. I used the WD website to verify the name and password associated with WD drive. Finally, using the different account/credentials option in the Win 11 map network

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No network connection

Hello Graham,

To resolve your concern about wireless network issues, please click the link below and follow the suggested troubleshooting steps:

• Fix network connection issues in Windows 10

Let us know how it goes.

 

Factory reset Windows 11 24H2 (build 26100.863)

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

There are no currently listed problems resetting version 24H2 of Windows 11 and no specific steps you need to perform, are you experiencing any problems with that insider build that is causing you to perform a Windows reset?

 

Win 10 Network Printer Connection Problem

I have tried, when using the wifi from a Win 7 computer to connect to the printer connected to it. Others can connect.

I did do the three steps outlined:

• Open File Explorer. Pick the "Network" icon from the left pane (navigation pane) of the file explorer UI.
• If sharing is turned off you will see a pale yellow line towards the top of the window that states "Network Discovery is turned off. Network computers and devices are not visible. Click to change...".
• Click this bar and select "Turn on network discovery and file sharing"

None of the suggestion worked.

I did notice that the PC I'm connecting to is 'Private' while I am listed as 'Public'.

• Can this be causing the problem?
• Are there other suggestions?

I need to be connected to use the other printer so work flow can not be disrupted and someone else needs to print the file for me.

I will be with this group again on Monday.

Thank you.